Tuesday, September 26, 2023 Regular Board Meeting

001good early evening I guess I should say um I would now like to call the meeting to order at 4 pm and Yvette will read the language under public content thank you madam president in order to help assure compliance with the brown act and in order to make our board meetings more effective and more efficient trustees will speak only when recognized and trustees who speak on a topic other than the agenda item currently under consideration will be out of order meeting protocols the safety and decorum of the Stockton board meetings are important to Stockton Unified School District and the community as CSD promotes the Public's right to free speech and we want to make sure that all community members parents and students are able to participate in a safe environment we want to ensure all

002community members have a seat during the board meeting we will have the maximum number of chairs allowed per fire code which is 132. we ask that members of the public do not stand along the side of the wells or block the walkway anyone standing up during the meeting will be asked to take a seat if they do not comply they will be asked to leave any accredited news media representative who is standing will have a press credential clearly visible there is a Podium positioned in front of the first row of chairs no one other than the person who is speaking may be at the podium except for a guardian administrator or translator for safety people may not line up behind the speaker to rate their turn we want to give the person at the podium

003the time and respect they deserve each speaker will be allowed three minutes attendees are not allowed to enter that area past the table where board members are sitting no profanity or obscenity during the board meeting if there is a disruption the board president or designee will give a verbal warning to the person or persons causing the disruption if the disruption continues after the verbal warning the individual or individuals will be asked to leave or be removed from the premises for the remainder of the board meeting after the board meeting is concluded we ask Community to clear the lobby area in a respectful manner back to you madam president thank you Yvette we will now move on to roll call taken by Yvette as well vice president Stevens president [Music] trustee Denair president trustee Mendez trustee

004Rico I know trustee Rico's not present trustee zuluetta trustees Alouette is also not present president angelan Flores present thank you student representative Victoria Herron she might be coming after thanking back to you madam president thank you Yvette I'm moving on to we're going to go ahead and table the 1.3 for when we come back so that we can give our student board representative an opportunity to speak then um so we will move on now to item 1.4 the student honoree and if we can please ask Miss Marilyn Rizzo Leon student of Stockton high school and if we can have Mr Tommy Morgan principal to the podium and Mike please good afternoon susd board and guests my name is Tommy Mogan I'm the principal at Stockton Alternative High School just across the street out these windows

005before I introduce my student honoree I wanted to share a couple of successes happening at our school so far this year we've made great strides for improving some of our big Focus areas to support students first enrollment and attendance are both up from this time in the past years and trending to set a new expectation for our site in the future students and parents are reacting to some of the small changes we are implementing in an effort to improve student motivation while we are small and without Sports to bolster school spirit our school pride is continuing to grow this school-wide Positive Growth trickles down to students and increases their positive views of the campus and supports them being here every day we are tackling chronic absenteeism and classes are filling up we're beginning to have

006beginning to have to get specific with enrollments and graduation plans with higher enrollment numbers which is a great challenge to have next our school culture has made some great gains already this year after being awarded the ramus grant our site decided to empower the students in the decision-making process so the space can be created for students by students I'm also happy to share that we are in the process of partnering with Home Depot to create an outdoor student space the space appropriately named by students Tarzan territory will be for students only and supports research that aligns to outdoor spaces lowering levels of stress anxiety and depression in addition to site projects we have our highest interest in enrollment in Delta do enrollment classes to date we're also supporting student goals by offering site-based presentations from

007postgraduate industries from within our Community Partnerships as well as finding field trips to expose our students to real world work experiences the students of Stockton high are often students who didn't feel successful at their Comprehensive High Schools either the site felt too big they felt lost in the crowd or they just needed a fresh start Stockton High exists to catch these students before they fall and give them a small learning environment carrying in attentive adults and a staff who will literally do anything to push them towards graduation and onward one of our student success stories is here tonight she was in need of a space where she could have the time she needed with content rather than a calendar or pacing guide dictating how long she has to understand A New Concept she had plans

008in the future to become an ultrasound tech or other positions in the medical field to help others thankfully she come to us in time to make those dreams happen and get on track for graduation she greets every staff member with a smile every morning and she's probably smiling now yep she knows how to seek out support when she needs it and she stays focused on her goals for her future I will let her tell a little more of her story it is my pleasure to introduce Miss Marilyn rizzoliom hello my name is Marilyn Rizzo I'm in 11th grade and today I'll be talking about Stockton high school I had transferred from Franklin in the beginning of 10th grade when I got here I felt very welcomed by everyone and I can say that during the

009time I've been here I learned so much more than I did at my other school not that it was bad but just that I personally always tend to get distracted easily which was the problem for me there here in Stockton High I'm able to stay focused will help me with having that two hour and 20 minute of no phone just only doing work I was failing almost all my classes and I'm happy to say I see no F and had gotten out of my last class within a having a quiet space while working by yourself but knowing there's a teacher to give you help if needed really gives a relief the requirement of another two hours of work at home seems fair to me overall this goal is really great and I'm glad to say

010I got accepted here after graduating I will be studying to hopefully become an Ultra cell technician thank you for listening and I hope you guys have a wonderful afternoon go ahead and stay where you are Marilyn and if we can have your principal and do you have parents here with you mom mom come on up and and uh trustee Donald Denair is going to come down and get a picture with you as I was holding on to it trustee Donald [Laughter] you're fine you're good thank you and then maybe we should we did have the program in Canada because I'm wearing heels so okay [Laughter] okay we will now move on to recognition for Pacific Law Academy and Stockton Early College Academy known as SATA for making the U.S news and World reports in the

011top school rankings if we can have I know just knowing us Thai so come on up Ty oh say something yeah thank you first I just want to say thank you thank you to the board uh superintendent and the cabinet and support staff for having me here tonight it's uh it is a real pleasure to be to be recognized for the hard work of uh take a staff and of their students um this is the first time that we've ever been ranked in the top one percent in the nation and that was quite an accomplishment that we really shared and celebrated at our school but I what I'd like to say is that it is really I think a result of our culture that we've created to support the students not only in their academics

012but in making sure that they um they're looking out right for themselves and for each other and that they're involved in things besides the academics that that get this ranking so uh whether it's school events or uh our Friday Night Live Club um who's now been recognized Statewide for their mental health measures uh or the students that work hard and play sports for their home schools making sure that they're those well-balanced rounded uh individuals that are going to go on to be successful um you know they they tease us a little bit about just getting the smart kids and we get we get them all they represent Stockton Unified they represent our neighborhood demographics they come in several great levels below sometimes uh of what the standards uh require and they all graduate uh move

013on to four-year schools and do incredibly well and I think that again is a tribute to our parents our district our my staff our students and and the community at large so I really appreciate the recognition thank you so with that being said um on behalf of the Stockton Unified School District we congratulate and commend secca for earning its third consecutive gold ranking as one of the best high schools as far as college readiness first in the metro area and 18th in the California high schools ready to go away and if we can call Mr Martinez up to the podium now and on behalf of the Stockton Unified School District we congratulate and commend pla for receiving gold ranks as one of the top high schools and number three in the metro area high schools

014congratulations Mr Martinez good evening uh for president Flores board trustees and superintendent Dr Rodriguez we first of all would like to thank you for all the support that you've given to pla family especially through the pandemic it was tough times for us and then we also looked at our you know our registration we're we're a dependent Charters so we wanted to make sure that we were building off of the pandemic so here's a little bit of what we were able to do not only did we achieve this for the first time I don't believe we've ever received a gold ranking but last year two of our students were accepted to top universities one to Stanford and one to UCLA so we look forward to your continued support as we as we continue to build our

015culture and build that uh culture of success and also secca is right in front of us so we know where the target is thank you very much come back Mr Martinez Mr Martinez gonna come back up thank you in our student board representative is here now so I would like to go ahead and go back um to item 1.3 and we now are ready for the report by missed Victoria Herron hi can you guys hear me okay sorry I was a little late but um for Franklin I'm just going to be doing the celebrations for the high schools and I received celebrations from Franklin stag and Edison Franklin Mr Vida Montez was recently inducted into the Mexican American Hall of Fame in recognition for his distinguished achieving in education he is a respected and honored

016member of our community for past and current generations of Franklin alumni we appreciate his hard work and dedication of Franklin and in our community he's a really good teacher he's a great person plus started student forms um I had once a day teachers and students are being recognized for attendance monthly via PBIS monthly assemblies Franklin is kicking off homecoming week with the spirit week this week leadership students are joining other District leadership students for training in Sacramento next week and then in stag on Wednesday September 13th was the exciting stag groundbreaking ceremony for the barn that will become part of the Stag agricultural Department the week of 9 18-922 was the stack homecoming week with Wednesday as the student Valley Friday before the varsity football game was the tailgate party stag beat Weston Ranch for

017the game where the coordination of the Stag homecoming King Luis Nolasco and queen Jamila Farms homecoming dance that culminated this week's activities stag hosted an extremely successful parent copy hour and academic conferences on 9 14. stack has been celebrating students with gifts giveaways for positive attendance and positive behaviors plus surveys were distributed and filled out by students last week this Friday 9 29 stag will host a club Rush during the lunchtime opportunity for clubs to recruit new members and make money for their clubs and lastly for Edison Edison Athletics are off to a great start and are in first place in five out of six programs our journalism students released the first issue of the Vikings newspaper and got tons of positive abuse and we would like to celebrate our senior and JROTC student Juan

018Roman he has sworn into the United States Army Reserves as a 91b vehicle mechanic thank you and we will now move on to item 1.6 oral suggestions and Abby will announce the number of public comments and request each person to provide their public comment in the order they will received and Christina will be the time keeper do we have any public comments trustees as of this very moment I have not received any public common cards for item 1.6 thank you thank you and item 1.7 Doug do we have any cases that we would like to hear in public session there are no requests to be heard in Open Session president Flores thank you moving on to item 1.8 the board will consider in closed session items listed in closed session by vice president Kenneth Stevens

019thank you president Flores in closed session the board will consider item 2.1 a Public Employee appointment certificated leave of absence resignation retirement and appointment 2.2 a public Public Employee appointment classified leave of absence resignation retirement resend employment offered and appointment 2.3 a Public Employee appointment professional expert coaches appointment 2.4 a Public Employee discipline dismissal and release 2.5 conference with legal counsel existing litigation name of case TP versus susd San Joaquin Superior Court case number STK cvuoe 2022-11302 and name of case student versus Stockton Unified oah case number 202304-0926 and LJ versus Stockton Unified some are Keene County some are Keen Superior Court case number STK CV uwt202110474 those are all matters that will be considered in closed session back to you madam president thank you we will now go ahead and recess to closed session

020at 4 20. 15. president to return to the diocese and so we will call the meeting back into public session at 5 30 and Yvette will now read the language under public content thank you madam president in order to help assure compliance with the brown act and in order to make our board meetings more effective and more efficient trustees will speak only when recognized and trustees who speak on a topic other than that agenda item currently under consideration will be out of order board meeting protocols the safety and decorum of the school board meetings are important to Stockton Unified School District and the community susd promotes the Public's right to free speech and we want to make sure that all community members parents and students are able to participate in a safe environment we want

021to ensure all community members have a seat during the board meeting we will have the maximum number of chairs allowed per fire code which is 132 we ask that members of the public do not stand along the side of walls or block the walkway anyone standing up during the meeting will be asked to take a seat if they do not comply they will be asked to leave any accredited news media representative who is standing will have a press credential clearly visible there is a Podium positioned in front of the first row of chairs no one other than the person who is speaking maybe at the podium except for a guardian administrator or translator for safety people may not line up behind that speaker to wait their turn we want to give the person at the

022podium the time and respect they deserve each speaker will be allowed three minutes attendees are not allowed to enter the area past the table where the board members are sitting no profanity or obscenity during the board meeting if there is a disruption the board president or designee will give a verbal warning to the person or persons causing the disruption if the disruption continues after the verbal warning the individual or individuals will be asked to leave or be removed from the premises for the remainder of the board meeting after the meeting is concluded we ask Community to clear the lobby area in a respectful manner back to you madam president thank you and we will now begin on item 4.1 the Pledge of Allegiance led by clerk Sophia cologne can we all stand s of America

023and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay we will now move on to 4.2 which is the recognition of plus students that attended our data and dinner and I was told um that there were some students who were not able to make it today but we're going to go ahead and mention their name anyways and acknowledge them for for showing up can we call up Jillian and Jennifer Robles that they're here miss Coleman Miss Santella and miss Iris if you were here as well okay then I'll have trustees in there and trustee you want to talk a little bit about data and dinner all right um every one of our campuses who are national leaders on our campus um who are there to

024do this local homework um uh we are there to do Advocate advocacy work to responsible alignments and to build the connections with information at our schools um we train our leaders um we uh train our leaders um to demos um here for other parents from the concert and we recognize them um where we had a youth panel um to uh talk about our school climate data from the end of last school year where they were able to disaggregate and look and dive deeper into some of the questions about what's going on on our campuses to understand some of the issues that are happening to be able to talk about some of the real truths happening at our school sites and to have some of those honest conversations about what they would like to see done

025at some of their schools we had Community conversations Community asked questions students gave input our superintendent attended our assistant superintendents attended we had our safety coordinator attend as well and we also had some real great conversations about with our board members as well to be able to have those conversations about school climate safety and bullying and all of the important topics that our students are experiencing at school they were Brave individuals to get up in front of our community in front of importance people in our district to have these conversations and so that's why they're here tonight to have these conversations to be recognized for that so uh we wanted to thank them do you want me to very all right um we also I'm not going to forget this part we had a student

026panel but we also had an administrator panel um where we talked about PBIS positive behavior interventions and supports to talk about not only the student pieces to how to address some of the climate issues we also had an opportunity to address how administrators are setting their schools up for a success and how they're starting to address some of those climate issues themselves so we were really excited that they were able to attend and have that panel discussion as well so we want to honor our students who were were there some of them are not here tonight because they had games um we have we have a couple who have to leave very shortly for more games um so I'm gonna go through this list and we're going to get started um Savannah dupart is not

027here tonight because she is with our uh having volleyball game she's from Stagg High School we also have Daniella seja with Edison High School my students I just have to say that we have Khalil brown with Edison High School Victoria Hernan with Edison Franklin High School I saw her today she was super excited Juanita yes stay on up there we're gonna get pictures um Juanita schwenker from Franklin High School danaya Smith from shot from Chavez High School Alexander Garcia from Chavez High School Liliana Ortiz from Chavez High School and Cody Ayers from Stagg High School all right and we look forward to seeing you all at the next one thank you for having us ready yeah okay we will now move on to item 4.3 which is action taken in closed session by vice president

028Kenneth Stevens thank you trustee Flores in closed session the board motion to approve item 2.1 with Amendment motion carried 5-0 with two absent absent trustees being trustee Rico and trustee zuluetta brought motion to approve item 2.2 motion carried four one with two absent yes votes coming from trustees colon Denair Mendes and Stevens a no vote coming from trustee Flores and two absent being trustee Rico and trustee zuluetta the board motion to approve item 2.3 motion carried 5-0 with two absent absent votes being trustee Rico and trustee zuluetta board motion to approve dismissal of one food service assistant motion carried 5-0 with two being absent those absent being trustee Rico and trustee zuluetta the board motion to approve item 2.4 to release one probationary preschool assistant motion carried 5-0 with two being absent those absent being

029trustee Rico and trustee zuluetta item 2.4 the board motion to approve a five-day suspension for one classified employee the motion carried four zero with one abstinction and two absent yes votes coming from trustee cologne trustee Donaire trustee Flores and trustee Mendes the abstinction coming from trustee Stevens and two being absent coming from trustee Rico and trustee zuluetta item 2.4 a board motion to approve dismissal of one classified administrator the motion carried 5-0 with two being absent absent votes being trustee Rico and trustee zuluetta board motion to approve item 2.5 a settlement agreement for an educational fund an attorney's fees totaling eleven thousand dollars motion carried five zero with two being absent those two being trustee Rico and trustee zuluetta board motion to approve item 2.5 a motion to approve a settlement agreement in the case

030I'm sorry in the case of L Jones versus susd San Joaquin Superior Court case number STK CV uwt2021-10474 motion carried 5-0 with two being absent those absence being trustee Rico and trustee zuluetta those are all actions taken in closed session back to you madam president thank you VP and we will now move on to item 4.4 which is the order of agenda and Abby will read the oral announcement this is the opportunity for the Board of Trustees to make any changes to the order of the agenda otherwise the order of the agenda will be as published thank you at this time are any of my colleagues up here would I take the opportunity to make any changes to the order of the agenda no I see men so we will go ahead and motion to

031approve the order of agenda I make the motion to approve the audio order of agenda I'll second row call vote student representative Victoria Herron absent vice president Stevens yes yes trustee Denair yes trustee Mendes yes trustee Rico yes Jesse zuluweta opposite trustee Zulu what is a yes president Flores yes motion carries unanimously moving on to item 5.1 oral suggestions and comments from the community regarding Open Session agenda items and Abby will announce a number of public comments and request each person to provide their public comment in the order they were received and Christina will be the timekeeper trustees who have not received any public comment cards for item 5.1 thank you thank you moving on to item 5.2 oral suggestions and comments from the community regarding non-agenda items and Abby will announce the number of

032non-agenda items public comments and request each person to provide their public comment in the order they were received and Christina will be the timekeeper individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board the board shall limit the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes trustees we have three common cards for item 5.2 the first Common card is from Dr Gene Bigler regarding appointment of director of diversity equity and inclusion foreign good evening trustees Dr Rodriguez it's a pleasure to be with you the Coalition of Mexican American associations widely known as coma for over half a century is a collective body and 501c3 organization governed by the leaders of almost three dozen Stockton and San Joaquin County entities and membership groups that serve the Hispanic and Latino people and their

033interests my fellow board members have asked me Dr Gene Bigler to make this statement on behalf of the Board of coma about three subjects of interest to our organization the first is our Commendation of the Stockton Unified School District decision to appoint a director of diversity equity and inclusion I will briefly describe our interest in this important matter for the community second we are worried about the negative impact of the Cobin pandemic has had on the education of our children and especially about the worsening of linguistic impediments to learning and our fears that they have been inadequate so far third we want to welcome if a bit belatedly our new superintendent Dr Michelle Rodriguez to the community and initiate an effort to renew the constructive bridge that coma has provided for the susd community for

034decades as a collective organization inspired by the Civil Rights and farm labor movements the soul and character of coma centers on diversity equity and inclusion for almost 1500 years our forebears practiced the right to be included as an integral part of our Hispanic heritage to this they added the linguistic religious scientific and cultural richness of their Iberian Latino Roots the many especially afro-caribbean and Colonial contributions of our enslaved ancestors and many of America's indigenous peoples who embraced our community and became part of it finally our new world commitment to the National Independence and personal Liberty to Define who we are in all the communities across the Americas we pledge our support and collaboration with susd efforts to embrace understand celebrate and constructively respond to the tremendous diversity need for inclusion and glaring inequities of our

035community families and friends in all our organizations and several are with me tonight have expressed consternation over the educational setbacks our children and grandchildren have experienced over the last few years I'm sorry well we just want to let you know that we're concerned and ready to help you with all the efforts to deal with any inequities caused by the covet pandemic for our children thank you very much Dr Rodriguez will get in touch with you soon about a new special event thank you next common card is from Justin Grant regarding funding inequity this year in the visual arts um good evening uh president superintendent member of the public I'm Justin Grant I'm a teacher been here at the district for 20 something years I teach art over at uh Franklin uh 10 bucks less than

03610 bucks that's how much I got to spend on each student last year last couple years we have to do block prints art one but little art block prints I actually buy big sheets and give myself blisters cutting it down because I get less than 10 bucks to spend a little bit of watercolor we don't do ceramics uh I've asked the other teachers in the district Although our teachers last Thursday 1500 to 2 000 bucks is what we got last year there was a new teacher he teaches his prep we kind of frown upon that but he does 300 students he gets around 1500 bucks so you get about five dollars to spend on his students all year uh yeah mind-boggling uh there's no variation for our teachers that do our two or three or

037ceramics there's no formula there's no transparency the money actually goes to the music department first and then they they figure something out but we don't get to know is our department how much they get uh I've been honored to be in this sta for many years and on the bargaining team I've met with the last six cbos I asked Marcus battle this a year or so ago I was like what's the formula he says oh you have to ask Cindy Wildman Sydney go Ireland says it's not her job to know the formula for the high schools she's in charge of the younger students um and she actually I said I'm going to go to the school board because this is insane like less than 10 bucks and I've gone to a point of this year

038yet did she say I said I want to come to the school board she says you do make sure you talk about it you need money for this year for your school but it's not just my school it's all the high schools by principle said we're deaf is spending 30 million I have some real questions about that but not time to get into it and we have to cut back they said they might be able to come up with some money from the IB Program maybe possibly they'll let us know when they figure it out we're a quarter of the way into the school first report cards are almost coming up this year what I've heard is we might get about three bucks per student two years ago one of my teachers at my site

039left because she wasn't getting funded she went to another school district where they have ceramics and they never kill him and she has supplies we got two new teachers at Franklin and they both should probably leave if they're going to try to survive and teach on five dollars a student a year now just spitballing at 20 bucks would be double last year that would be huge not saying its best but would be huge we have less than 30 art teachers in the high schools that'd be 120 000 agenda items nine three nine four nine five your your uh trips that's sixty thousand dollars you're going to spend nine days and spend sixty thousand dollars we could do 90 days because we're asking for 120 that'd be 20 bucks that again would be huge and then

040our district with this deficit spend anything we need to spend some of the money you set aside the board last year on June 28 2022 56 million dollars and change because we have too much money let's allocate some of that money so we can teach art thank you next common card is from Miss Sylvia Cantu regarding credit cards board battle online 271 code of ethics board members are to govern responsibility and hold themselves to the highest standards of ethical conduct and alignment with that of public trust board bylaw 9250 reimbursement the rate of reimbursement should not exceed limitations specified for district Personnel this was adopted in May 28 2015. it was updated on March 9 2021 that mentions expenses for travel telephone business meals or other authorized purposes shall be in accordance with policy established

041for district Personnel at the same rate of reimbursement one example of embezzlement is the misuse of a corporate credit cards for personal purchases how does the use of the susd credit card by one board member exceeds spending by any other board member conferences meals are at 69 a day how much was spent on meals and have we checked to see if there's any spending on souvenirs did any board member use their credit card not in their area if so why why would board members have lunch or dinner with constituents when resolution number 1947 was to enforce social distancing and March 12 2020 governor of California issued an executive order and 2520. which was to cancel large public gathering and to enforce social distancing from March 26 2020 to October 26 2021 board meetings or teleconference

042November 9 2021 to March 22 2022 public attended the board meetings telephonically via Zoom the in-person did not happen until April 12 2022. susd should not spend one penny more time with the credit card investigation instead there should be an action agenda item to eliminate the use of issuing credit cards to board members and refer to San Joaquin County D.A for an investigation on board members credit card views from December 2nd to 2000 to 20 to September 2023 San Joaquin County district attorney Ron Freitas is investigating any and all wrongdoing past or present at susd remember the district credit cards were not revoked they were voluntarily given at any time they can be asked to volunteer to give him back do you like the board members did in 2011 they know an agenda item to

043make sure business doesn't happen because this is general fund I'm not saying anybody's guilty but there should be an investigation that we should not be paying for it because I think we paid enough our from our schools it looks like we don't have enough for art supplies or anything else so that's just it I'm not picking on anyone but I think what's right is right thank you very much trustees this concludes common Courts for item 5.2 thank you thank you moving on to item 6.1 and I get a motion to approve the consent items and Abby will read the old announcement does any trustee have any item they would like remove for separate consideration as an action item after any items are removed for separate consideration there will be a vote on the consent items

044without any discussion thank you can I get a motion to approve I won't make the first emotion can I get a second can I get a real call vote vice president Stevens yes clerk colon yes trustee Denair yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluetta yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously moving on to item 7.1 which is a presentation regarding the grand jury response on School site safety and at this time I'd like to call up Chief Franco and Marcus Tomlin good evening board president Board of Trustees and superintendent Dr Rodriguez I'm here Mayra Franco chief of police for Department of Public Safety and I'm here with Marcus Allman director of emergency services and preparedness and so we're here tonight to present to you guys um the findings and recommendations by the grand

045jury um on school safety see if this works is it on oh is it that way oh there it goes you just have that present for me we apologize for that technical difficulties um so the grand jury um conducted an assessment into the safety measures at 14 of the public school sites um within the San Joaquin County Stockton Unified being one of them and with that we're here tonight to present to you the findings the recommendations as well as our District's response to uh these findings so in the report the grand jury identified several fundamentals that they consider to be the best um development of a safety plan as you can see some of the identified fundamentals were site-specific emergency plans creating a culture of safety lockdown drills and Sheltering in place evacuation and reunification

046identifying and assigning incident command rules recognizing abnormalities having situational awareness at all times and empowering staff to make decisions during emergencies and through this presentation you will see that the district actually complies with many of these fundamentals in the process that we have in place for our safety plan so we're going to start with the district's disaster and response plans also known as a Readiness at Emergency Management for schools Rems is going to be the acronym so we have in the district 7 disaster plans and note that the cssp the comprehensive school safety plan is not a disaster plan nor response plan which is important to note as far as our response plan we're going to focus on what we call our Rams guide for schools which we use the most often in schools with

047that being said we're going to go to the next slide cssp's safety elements and disaster plans this is K-12 schools so our comprehensive if the comprehensive school safety plan is an overall strategic plan and programs some of the data used is suspension Suicide Prevention pieces Conflict Management crime prevention bully prevention Internet safety and went down so these programs we use so so if you can just wait just a second what's happening is we're asking them to put it on board docs as the board can't see the presentation well from our vantage point so they just took it off temporarily so that we could um put it on board docs for the board okay so just one second you can continue okay so we do use we have multiple Departments comprising of the comprehensive school safety

048plan one of them is our research Department speaking to the microphone I'm sorry our site administrators excuse me they have the ability to contact a research department and access data for the comprehensive school safety plan or disaster plan again is a it's a component of our comprehensive school safety plan and there's five mission areas prevention protection mitigation response and Recovery that's that's our uh rem's guide for schools and basically it's very specific to the roles of Staff during emergencies um and I'll just give you an example of some we have bomb threats we have parent uh parent Guardian roles that we send out active shooter response plans reunification we have specific guidelines for reunification we haven't include bus accidents gas leaks table tops for staff lock Town drills drills and schedules procedures reports at this

049point it's approximately a 200 Page document moving on so this is going to be the grand jury's findings and recommendations 2.0 comprehensive school safety plan safety grand jury finding 2.1 the cssps failed to identify unique issues for each site and use boilerplate language and template leaving schools unprepared for an emergency recommendation 2.1 the cssp addresses unique safety issues for the site by March 1st 2024. and as a district we partially disagree with this finding um there is a safety hazard assessment that is included in the Emergency Operations plan as Mark has mentioned it's um named Rems with very specific um guidelines to these unique issues at each School site they are not included in the cssp however moving forward based on this recommendation we will be including the safety hazard into the cssp grand jury

050finding 2.2 the cssp does not involve teachers support staff students parents when updating the cssp recommendation 2.2 involve teachers support staff and parents when updating csst by December 15 2023. we currently do involve the above State stakeholders in the school site Council meetings when a cssp plan is on the agenda item and so we've done this practice prior to these findings and we'll continue them moving forward okay grand jury finding 2.3 School sites do not collaborate with local law enforcement and First Responders during annual update of cssp recommendation 2.3 School slides collaborate and receive input from appropriate emergency response agencies by December 15 2023. you see we also disagree as a school district we do collaborate with various emergency respond agencies throughout the year that including our own Department the Department of Public Safety and

051the Stockton fire when they participate in our drills and respond to our fire alarms also these agencies are invited to be present at the school site Council meetings when the cssp is on the agenda for feedback I just want to note too this is a summary of the findings and recommendations grand jury finding 2.4 cssp shows lack of collaboration with local law enforcement agencies causing confusion and Chaos during emergencies and again collaborate with law enforcement and first responder agencies throughout the year as I mentioned they are invited to be present for the School site Council meetings and then we do participate with all of our local emergency response agencies in active shooter trainings in the county grand jury finding 2.5 the cssp does not provide an opportunity for public input during the Drafting and approval

052of the cssp recommendations 2.5 School site Council hold an advertised public meeting that provides public and opportunity to express an opinion on the cssp by February 1st 2024. our district currently follows the practice of allowing public input at the school site Council meetings again when the cssp is on the agenda or through other topics as required by law all meeting meeting times dates and agendas are posted and made available to the public and we will be continuing this practice even prior to and moving forward from the findings finding 2.6 the cssp does not include an assessment of crime status and school related functions in the cssp recommendations 2.6 the cssp includes State mandated assessment of crime status and school related functions by March 1st 2024. and again um in this situation the the state List

053information types that are required um for cssps to assess the status of school crime and school related functions some of these being School attendance property damage suspension and expulsion rates we currently use those in um in our cssps however based on the recommendation we will be adding an accountability piece to have our School site administrator sign the compliance to a testing that they are complying with these requirements grand jury finding 2.7 cssp does not adequately address the needs of students with disabilities during emergencies recommendation 2.7 schools consult with appropriate professionals to address the needs to students with disabilities when updating the cssp by March 1st 2024. in regards to this finding we partially disagree with the district I mean with the district I'm sorry with the grand jury so we do not include this information

054in our CSS piece however this isn't the emergency operation span so the Emergency Operations plan to have specific guidelines for the needs of our special students especially if they um require the assistance of wheelchair braces crutches hearing aids any disabilities that might be in play they also consult with their on-site professional that has expertise in these areas when updating the the cssp so again we have been implementing this finding prior to the grand jury report and we'll continue grand jury finding 2.8 the cssp is not available to the public or is it posted and reveals confidential information recommendation 2.8 make cdssp is available with the exception of confidential information by March 1st 2024. in regards to this item the public comprehensive safety plan at the school site Council meetings when it is on the agenda

055also at any moment our public can come and ask at the school site and request to review the cssp and it will be made available to them we do not share any of the confidential information and that's the reason why our safety plan is composed of two right the cssp and the Rams the Rems is the information that's going to be more confidential that we don't want just released out there however based on the recommendations from the grand jury we will be making efforts to make the cssp more accessible and available to the public grand jury finding 2.9 cssp fails to identify incident command roles and individuals who perform the roles recommendation 2.9 cssp include incident command rules and identify who performs each role so as a district we currently follow the national Incident Management

056System as well as the incident command system all of our key personnel which includes cabinet level and administrators are required to complete ICS 100 200 700 and 800. um this the roles and responsibilities for these ICS positions are inside our rims manual however they do contain confidential contact information for that Personnel So based on the recommendation from the grand jury we will be including the rules in the cssp however that confidential contact information will be redacted can you uh give us the acronym for ICS oh I'm sorry incident command system grand jury finding 2.10 cssp failed to describe parent reunification system for campus-wide evacuations recommendation 2.10 cssp described the parent reunification system for campus-wide evacuation by March 1st 2024. in regards to finding we part ially disagreed with the grand jury parent readification is not

057included in our cssp however it is in our rims manual we currently use Blackboard as our Mass notification system and again based on the recommendation that the grand jury made we will be including information regarding this notification system in the cssb for the public grand jury finding 2.11 cssp does not account for specific dangers unique to the school site recommendations 2.11 include specific dangers unique to the school site and cssp by March 1st 2024. And in regards to this finding we as a district disagree with the finding San Joaquin County Office of Education I mean I'm sorry the San Joaquin County Office of Emergency Services identifies threats specific to San Joaquin County all of those are included in our emergency guidelines in our cssps also in addition to that each school is required to conduct

058an annual hazard assessment based specific to the unique issues from their School site so we will continue with those practices moving forward okay grand jury finding and recommendations 3.0 training grand jury finding 3.2 did not send a representative to the 2022 school safety Summit recommendation 3.2 send one or more representatives to the 2023 school safety Summit by December 1st 2023. we disagreed with this finding um myself as well as Marcus attended uh the 2022 school safety Summit as well as other District Representatives including some of our principals in the PBIS coordinator um we already have Representatives um registered for the 2023 school safety Summit so we will continue this practice ran jury finding 3.4 sites failed a sure substitute staff receive information they will need in an emergency recommendation 3.4 develop adopt and Implement written

059procedures for substitute staff by September 1st 2023. so as a district we currently have procedures for our substitute teachers and support staff in our rims manual however based on the recommendation made by the ground jury we did email this protocol to our administrators to include in the substitute package and so in addition to the procedure every classroom has an emergency flip guard an emergency classroom flip chart which is available to our substitutes in the event of an emergency grand jury finding 3.5 failed to utilize communication into the command protocols during safety drills three recommendation 3.5 Personnel identified for incident command rules be trained and certified in ICS 100 by November 1st 2023. and as mentioned in one of the previous slides our all of our leadership roles and responsibilities are identified in our women's manual

060um all key personnel is assigned to take the four ICS courses and with the completion date of October 1st 2023 for ICS 100 to gain compliance with this recommendation grand jury finding 3.6 cabinet level positions they're not trained in ICS 402 recommendations ics-402 training be completed by District level Executives by October 1st 2023. so as a district again it's in the 4 th is that all of our key personnel are required to complete including cabinet we will not be following the recommendation to take ICS 402 and the reason being that ics402 is at the basic level the four classes that we require our cabinet level to take actually include the information from 402 and our more advanced coursework in regards to this finding um also as well as that we still have a lot of

061new Personnel within the district that are currently in the process of completing that ICS training grand jury finding 3.7 sites do not vary the time of day drills are conducted and drills are not conducted when students are not in the classroom recommendations 3.7 schedule safety drills on different days times and outside the classroom by October 1st 2023. and we disagreed with this finding as well we will be scheduling those safety drills however as a practice in the past and moving forward the district conducts drills at different times of the day also including when kids are in and outside the classroom so testing them in different environments grand jury finding 3.8 sites fail to include support staff and real life roles during safety drills recommendations 3.8 schedule safety drills to include support staff and probable emergency

062roles by October 1st 2023. and again as a district we currently do implement this practice all of our drills include all of our staff on our School site including teachers administrators and support staff and we will continue this practice moving forward grand jury finding 3.9 sites fail to conduct a post-incident report after drill to identify what went wrong and future changes to improve plans recommendations 3.9 create a post-incident report for all drills by October 1st 2023. and we partially disagreed with this finding our district rims manual does have a post-incident crisis debrief and assessment form which is an expectation that my administrators fill that out after a drill however based on this recommendation we will be adding that to the comprehensive school safety plan as well okay leads us to 4.0 School site visits grand

063jury finding 4.1 not all Sites have check and procedures followed consistently recommendations 4.1 Implement and access control program that consistently includes verifying visitors identity by October 1st 2023 and we agreed with this finding as a district we don't have a consistent check-in procedure at our school sites however we are in the process of implementing a visitor management system that should be in effect fully implemented by November 1st 2023. grand jury finding 4.2 perimeter fencing or an open campus poses security challenges recommendation 4.2 develop adopt and Implement a plan for Effective perimeter control of access by March 1st 2024. finding all of our districts operate under a close campus um procedure and so there is only one entrance and exit point being the front of the school further all of our sitesap parameter perimeter fencing to

064protect the perimeter of the school and then also thanks to you the board we were approved September 12 2023 for our video access control system which will be implemented in all of our school sites grand jury finding 4.3 evacuation maps are posted inconsistently and do not show evacuation routes recommendation 4.3 School sites post evacuation map showing exit routes from the you are here perspective by September 1st 2023. and at the district we partially disagreed with this finding for the reason that we do have current emergency Maps they are included in the emergency folder for each classroom however based on the recommendation we are in the process of purchasing software to update and enhance these Maps making additional access to where the map can be accessed through the person's mobile phone making it easier to carry

065it as well to exit and find evacuation routes grand jury finding 44.4 inconsistent in Failure to follow door locking policies to create opportunities for perpetrators to enter the schools recommendations 4.4 development adopt and Implement a plan for door locking policies by March 1st 2024. and as a district or expectation for all of our classrooms however based on the recommendation by the grand jury we will be developing a a procedure for this for our school staff to follow and right now we are currently in the process of piloting a safe bolt system which will allow our staff to quickly lock the door from the inside just by the push of a button which will facilitate a lot of this as well grand jury finding 4.5 flip charts used to identify steps taken an emergency or not

066posted on all rooms recommendation 4.5 sites post flip charts for emergencies in every classroom in common area by March 1st 2024. and again on initially disagreed with the grand jury our district does require each classroom to have an emergency flip chart however based on this recommendation we will be taking additional steps on accountability ensuring that there is a flip chart and that it's updated by the due date grand jury finding 4.6 insufficient window coverings give perpetrators a clear line of sight creating risk for students and staff recommendation 4.6 ensure window coverings on all windows by March 1st 2024. and we partially disagreed with this finding um we do agree that a lack of window coverings creates a risk on our school sites however this is very dependent on the unique layout of each School site

067and so with that we will be providing lockdown blinds for our schools however this will be done through a site assessment to determine what windows will be the ones that require it and doing this assessment we will balance the need for natural surveillance so that means you know the ability for our our teachers and our students to be able to look out right for potential threats coming to them as well with the balance of all of our students staff and law enforcement safety as well when responding to these threats knowing what is inside or what they're looking for as well so really balancing that with the need grand jury finding 4.7 School site just demonstrated multiple maintenance shortcomings which negatively affect safety recommendation 4.7 review and discuss findings and recommendations with Board of Trustees at

068a public meeting by October 1st 2023. and we partially disagreed with this finding as well our district does maintain our sites regularly and thoroughly at the beginning of each school year a point person is assigned to each School site to identify any issues regarding maintenance and safety and as you see we are here presenting to you in compliance with the recommendation um of the grand jury discussing this safety assessment grand jury finding 4.8 good relationships among staff parents and students are vital to the to identify and address safety concerns and we agree with the grand jury in a sense that good relay relationships do address a lot of safety concerns however as a district we do prioritize good relationships among staff students and our parents and we encourage collaboration and teamwork and this is demonstrated

069through our behavioral threat in Korea and other processes that we have within the district grand jury finding 4.9 the school sites visited did not demonstrate meaningful public engagement and as the district make every effort to involve our public in the safety planning through the School site councils however based on the recommendation from the grand jury we do believe that more efforts can be made to encourage meaningful engagement from our community so in conclusion as you can see um in reviewing our response to the grand jury we have met a lot of the fundamentals that have been identified as being what would be deemed a good safety plan um again just reinforcing that we use two documents we don't just use the comprehensive school safety plan but we use the rims manual which is a more

070in detail um and has all of our confidential information we don't release that for the reason that we don't want it also to be um used against us right because that's going to have our exact procedures on what we expect our staff and students to do in the event of an emergency and with that um we did provide links um for yourselves and for our community so we have the original grand jury report as well of our as well as our response and we also have the Rems manual table of contents so that you can see without sharing the confidential information what is really covered in that plan in detail because we have everything from earthquake response to active shooter to gas leaks um you know a lot of the the issues that you can

071think of that um would occur in in our school district and within our um identified County um the other thing that we added was the required State compliance tool so this is composed through by the state so they've put out this compliance tool stating what are the requirements at a comprehensive safety plan has to have within it we use this to track exactly what is in our comprehensive safety plan so we are complying with all of the state requirements in the past and moving forward with it and with that also we wanted to just do a little shout out um we will be having a town hall safety meeting on October 3rd if you can join us um we will be going more into death as far as the applications of our safety plans and

072our updates that our district has done in regards to safety as well too so um that would be a great opportunity to hear everything that we are working towards safety as our district and with that that is the end if you guys have any questions I know with a lot of information to to put in there can I take the can I connect yes yes um I wanna I wanna to say that you guys work very hard for this and I know you guys have been working for a long time even principles they have very good judgment and for everything they're going through in the schools so I want to thank you for the time that you did and of course there's things that I hope that the grand jury see the hard work that

073you guys have been doing even before and now and that way they can see then they start Unified District we have a new superintendent and uh and you guys are being here and working with this one before and I'm very pleased for your response thank you for your hard work thank you we appreciate that and if we can just add to that um definitely safety as at the heart I think of both me and Marcus and like everything right we don't just stop here um safety is ever growing and ever you know continuing with new technology and our focus is to continue to evolve with that as well too I have a question chief for both of you and Marcus so in four point I'm sorry F 3.6 the ISC training for cabinet is that

074hosted by Keenan or is that an online training or do you guys doing in person for our cabinet members it's in person okay it's an in-person training thank you ICS training 402. oh the 402 yes the 402 specifically is is in person the four classes that we actually require which is the ICS 100 200 700 those are the ones I'm referring to yes those are actually online and they're through the FEMA website um so it's just straight through um the federal government okay got it thank you for sure awesome awesome I have no more questions thank you guys thank you thank you okay now gonna move on to item 8.1 public hearing notice adoption of resolution 23-16 determination of sufficient standards align textbooks and instructional materials type information I will now go ahead and open

075public hearing and if we can now have a staff report and I see that it's going to be presented by Miss eulene good evening all uh good to be up here I haven't seen you guys in a while up here um so I'm proud to report that we uh had our Williams visits by the county this is something that's been in effect since four I believe and um they visit a number of our sites to determine that all of our students have all the adopted curriculum uh in their hands and our district passed with flying colors we had no findings from Williams they also conduct additional visits which just happened last week that have to do with facilities we haven't received that final report but this public hearing has to be done for the materials

076alone and um just to kind of give it a little bit of a context we have over 62 different curriculums that doesn't count TK it doesn't count electives there's accounting of that 62 of just our core curriculums between K-12 so that's a lot of stuff to make sure that all of our sites have and then make sure that we have sufficient numbers so any questions any questions I see none thank you I will now open it up for public testimony I see none I will now open it up for trusty comments icnan I will now go ahead and close the public hearing we will now move on to item 9.1 which is the board committee reports and Abby will read the oral announcement and announce each board committee report and if we can go ahead

077and keep that to two minutes per board member this is the opportunity to hear any reports from board committees specifically regarding prior or upcoming committee meetings there will be a three two minute limit per report s committee report in city of Stockton Parks and Rec from trustee Donaldson air good evening everyone I was not able to attend uh to last night's uh Parks and Rec commission meeting but the next meeting is October 23rd Monday 5 30 at the city council chamber on the second floor of the Stockton City Hall thank you you next committee is San Joaquin County School boards Association executive committee by trustee Donald Donaire hello again uh so as the legislative session ends at the Capitol in Sacramento um in the next few weeks or is ending I'll be pairing preparing a

078report for October's school board meeting so I can report on the legislative bills that Governor Newsom will sign into law so thank you next committee is three by three committee by clerk Sophia colon hello everyone so we had our meeting three by three yesterday evening here in the boardroom it was a very productive meeting um we were able to discuss um two main topics uh and kind of centered around safety and traffic and our health and wellness so our city council members are well aware of some of the situations that we have at many of our school sites with traffic safety and we talked about some some easy solutions to like medium to hard solution like what are what's all on the table um and it seems like we're getting some some traction a little

079bit here on trying to come to a solution for all of our school sites so um we also talked about uh coming together on a shared project we're going to be diving into that a little bit more in our next meeting but it will likely be around Traffic Safety we talked about uh National walk to school day possibly um also including some kind of bike riding so there's lots of there's lots of activities out there we were discussing how can we come together and bring it all together under one campaign so um very productive meeting I was really really pleased about that our next meeting is October the 23rd at 5 30 here in the boardroom thank you next committee is 1852 Foundation committee by vice president kennita Stevens thank you Abby so we met

080this past Tuesday we have our final date for our fundraiser it will be February the 2nd 2024 so look forward to Flyers and invitations for you all to come out and support the work that we do for our students with the foundation and our next meeting date will be Monday October 23rd here in the boardroom at 4 pm next committee is curriculum and student outcomes committee by trustee Donald Donaire so we have not met since our August meeting the next meeting is scheduled Friday October 27th 5 30 here in the district boardroom next committee is English learner committee by President Angel and Flores um our next committee meeting is going to be on November 7th and I look forward to the survey results that were sent out and get an update on our partnership with

081Stanislaus and so I'm looking forward to getting information on that and then a reclassification update as well at our next English language Learners committee here in our boardroom thank you the next committee is equity diversity committee by President Angel and Flores that next committee meeting is going to be scheduled on October 4th we did have it scheduled for tomorrow but we do have a conference that we're going to be attending so we had to reschedule it to October 4th next committee is safety and student conduct committee by vice president Kenneth Stevens no new update our next meeting is October 19th here at the district at 5 30 PM but before that we have October 3rd which will be the Safety Town Hall um that'll be in president flores's area over at Hamilton Elementary so looking

082forward to seeing you all at the Safety Committee Town Hall next committee's board policy committee by President Angel and Flores um our next committee meeting is scheduled for October 26th we did have our first meeting um so I want to thank all of the presidents of our unions that showed up and represented we were able to kind of just come on and get on one page so that we all understand that we are here for students and what do we need from each prospective departments to ensure that we are reaching student achievement through our roles and our responsibilities that we do here day in and day out next committee report is budget oversight committee by vice president Kenneth Stevens sure our next meeting is Monday October 2nd at 4 pm here at the boardroom looking

083forward to seeing you all next report is transformative Justice committee by clerk Sophia colon hello everyone so our next transformative Justice committee meeting um was scheduled during our fall break and we rescheduled it and I apologize that I don't at this time know our rescheduled date but I'll make sure to get that for for next time we look forward to talking about more reports we talked about some of our um the doj reporting and so we'll continue that discussion thank you next report is black students Thrive committee by vice president Kenneth Stevens thank you so we will be hosting our student speak event on October 18th we have a tentative date we don't have a flyer I believe the time will be 5 30 p.m at the Amelia Adams Whole Life Center so look forward

084to more of that information also with the group we created a portal so that organizations that want to support and work with the district they now have a portal to register and hopefully become a part of the district either through a mou or RFP process next Community report is board president Round Table standing subcommittee by President Angel and Flores so I misunderstood the last comment that I made was related to the board president round table and so I'm going to correct it the equity committee meeting is also scheduled for October 26th they are both scheduled on the same day different times so you come in at four o'clock and just plan to be here until 6 30. thank you trustees this concludes board committee reports thank you forgot I was up here again okay I'm

085going to brief reports on trustees activities and Abby will read the oral announcement and Christina will be the timekeeper and for time's sake we'll go ahead and reduce that three minutes to two minutes please this is the opportunity for each trustee to make a brief announcement or give a brief report on their own racing activities at the district pursuant to the brown act government code section 54954.283 there will be a two minute limit per report thank you I will go ahead and start from my left uh trustee Mendes I would like to thank everybody for coming today to the board meeting I'm very excited you know the presentation by safety today um I know that everybody works very hard and everybody sometimes nobody give you that that pushed and they say you did a good

086job I think that everybody in the district's trying their best um it's very sad then uh other agencies are not seeing that but I do believe from the power of people and what they do also I wanted to tell you about uh the San Joaquin book a parent gave it to me they were very very excited about what the superintendent did it was really translate it perfectly not only that I received several to 23 calls and met with parents from uh different schools in the parking lot we have some coffee outside and um we have a fantastic the parents in the area looks very happy they are walking the superintendent um I see also another one that is in the Latino times I was very impressed parents were talking and they were seeing a lot

087of stuff in Spanish and I would like very much you know the superintendent they continue bringing us at the speaking in the Spanish and she does people appreciate it people really appreciated that thank you so much for your time and thank you everybody for coming today oh thank you madam president uh thank you everyone for being here tonight I uh I want to talk about uh the activities of the week but it's kind of been a heavy week we've had you know quite a bit of tragedy this week not only in our Hoover Uh Community but also on our Franklin High community and so I'm gonna just leave the rest of my time uh we're just saying that I you know hopefully we can lift up those communities as well of our as well as

088our greater Stockton community in Stockton Unified Community um and you know also just remember to try to reach out where you can and when you can our students and our families they're going through quite a bit right now as is our city um and we need all the prayers and support that we can get thank you trustee Regal good evening and all thanks for being here today I'm sorry I can't talk I just want to ask for a small prayer for the student conference away thank you uh vice president Stevens sure swagging her with um both of my colleagues there has been a lot of tragedy I think in this two week I've walked by Yellow Tape twice um this week the suffering of our young people and the trauma that they're experiencing it is

089a lot here in the city and I just want to preface the 1852 Foundation we are looking to support our families above what we can do here as a district if you have time to give to some of the activities that we'll be hosting for the community we do ask that you come out and give up your time bring out your family because it is a lot just right down the street we had a tragedy in my own neighborhood um we had a tragedy so times are really tough for our children and we just want to make sure that we can show them love and give them the best that we can at all times and with that being said I do have an activity that I'm hosting Friday October 13th I am partnering to

090do Trunk or Treat um in the parking lot of Sherwood Mall from 5 PM to 9pm would like to get some of our departments to come out as well to support our young people who are looking for activities to do out on a Friday night so you'll hear more about that once the flyer gets in your hands back to you madam president uh trustee Donald dinner so I'll just quickly share some of the school events and site visits that I was able to do in the past two weeks I was able to join the Stag School Farm groundbreaking ceremony it was really beautiful uh shout out to Crystal Van Ness and Nathan Haley for that beautiful event I also got to visit Cleveland Elementary in Hazleton Elementary with Dr Rodriguez our next School site visit

091in area five will be in Washington next month and then I do want to give us a special shout out to the chairperson for African-American black parent advisor committee thadia Smith III for nominating me to the scholarship for a workshop that's being hosted by the economics Lab at Georgetown University the workshop is called wild ride ahead it's a four-part virtual Workshop which will focus on District finances post Esser and I just want to read the description for you just to give you idea of what we're going to be talking about a close read of the district financial statements from across the country warns a financial habit for the next three years never before have leaders face such competing priorities spend down relief dollars in ways that bring value for students while also bracing for Budget

092gaps unlike any in history decisions made now come with big consequences for Downstream financials often see teacher and staff layoffs school closures and ultimately for students so I'm really looking forward to learning a lot from this four-part workshop and again shout out to Mr Darius Smith thank you clerk cologne right thank you everyone um so I'm happy to report I was able to visit on all my school sites in area six and just want to highlight really quickly I was able to read at uh with Miss Sandoval's kindergarten class at August school it was such a treat we read how do apples grow by Betsy Maestro and I had to get that book for myself because it was such a cute read very captivating and engaging on how apples grow in the community I was

093happy to hold my copy with trustee colon took my family out to Family Day in the park I also attended a town hall the town our town hall on engagement so I was really happy to see so many different stakeholders attending and the discussions that were happening this past week or last week I attended the first of five Training sessions with csba which is our master's in governance course the first is foundations of effective governance so I'm really looking forward to complete those by the end of this year and upcoming um this at the end of this week I'll be attending with some of my colleagues here the California Latino School Board Association conference so looking ahead to some of the topics on Community Schools uh data driven decision making and educational reform amongst others

094there's so many um options to choose from so I'm looking forward to that and then lastly I just want to encourage everyone if you haven't already to please watch the movie A Million Miles Away about NASA astronaut Jose Hernandez it is very moving to say the least uh we we know him here he's a local Legend from Stockton graduated from Franklin High School and UOP I've taken my children to see him speak quiet confidence is part of is is one way I would describe him just to have an example of a person who is just diligent um so go see it thank you thank you um I would just like to hold a moment of silence for the student that we did lose from Franklin um so we can just do a minute of silence

095for him thank you um um I had I was able to attend the Delta College Community College Gala and so I was able to speak with the president and some of the political science teachers there and so um if we can arrange some meetings with the teachers they would definitely like to collaborate with us and see how their students at Delta can join our district in either mentorship or learning how we can grow our political science programs and then I was also able to attend Family Day in the park and I was also able to attend the CTE event that we had which was a great event I wore heels which I made a mistake of wearing those but now I know for the next one but they had a lot of great events some

096students were getting hired on the spot right out of high school so when they finish this year they'll have a job in the trades already um and then I look forward to having more conversations about the area navigation program with Gary McCoy from the Tuskegee Airmen and I'm hoping to have more conversations about that pretty soon I think that that program right there trains students how to do a drone soccer and then after high school they train them how to take the FAA test and so right out of high school they'll be able to go into being a pilot making 70 80 000 a year so I look forward to creating a partnership with the San Joaquin County Supervisors um if we can reach out to Miguel via Boudoir and his assistant Chris rupay and

097I also know that David Varela also has an air navigation program and I promise I'm going to get there soon but that is another opportunity that I think that we are missing out on on not catching up to that quicker um I also want to acknowledge our students and the tragedies that have been facing our students in our district and just our city as a whole we also had a shooting down into Vista which is in my community and so let's just keep all of us in prayers and do our best to remain diligent in keeping our students safe thank you okay moving on to item 9.3 approval of exponentials for Stockton Unified School District board members to attend the California Association for bilingual education kabe annual conference in Anaheim California on Wednesday February 21

09824 uh to Saturday February 24 24. can I get a motion to approve make a motion Cecilia Mendes first can I get a second all second can I get a roll call vote vice president Stevens yes Claire colon yes trustee Denair yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluera no president Flores yes motion passes six one with no vote coming from trustee Zulueta moving on to item 9.4 approval of an out-of-state conference exponential for Stockton Unified School District board members to attend the National Association for the bilingual education known as nabe annual conference in New Orleans Louisiana on Wednesday March 27 24 to Saturday March 30th 2024 can I get a motion to approve quotient first Cecilia Mendez can I get a second all second can I get a roll call vote vice president

099Stevens yes Claire colon yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluetta no president Flores yes motion passes 6-1 with the no vote coming from trustee zuluetta can I get a motion to approve out of state conference exponential for Stockton Unified School District board members to attend the National School Board Association and SBA annual conference in New Orleans Louisiana on Saturday April 6 2024 to Monday April 8th 24th can I get a militia to approve I will make a motion for Cecilia Mendes can I get a second I'll second can we get a roll call vote vice president Stevens yes Mendez yes trustee Rico yes no president Flores yes motion passes six one with no vote coming from trustee zuluera moving on to item 9.6 approval of minutes July 25th special board

100study session meeting can I get a motion to approve make a motion for Cecilia Mendez can I get a second a second Stevens can I get a roll call vote vice president Stevens yes Clark colon yes Jesse Denair yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico no yes president Flores yes motion carries six one with a no vote coming from trustee Rico uh moving on to item 10.1 which is a superintendent's report by Dr Michelle Rodriguez superintendent yeah thank you so again I want to extend our condolences to our students family it has had a significant impact on sqsd today when I went out to Franklin um I do want to recognize the entire team that was out there supporting not only our students but also our staff and administrators so I just want to publicly thank

101Karen Coleman Marianne sandella Brian biederman and elati and our Department of Public Safety for being out there and supporting our staff students and Community as we continue to heal so thank you so much um it's also it's already been mentioned but we do have our last of Five Town Halls so it is going to be on Public Safety on safety in so I hope you can come out because I do want to say and you'll see later on tonight and for the last couple board meetings and the future board meetings how much Chief Franco her whole department and Marcus omlin how diligent they are working to ensure that we are addressing the safety needs here in Stockton Unified and so I just want to publicly thank them as well for the work that they're doing

102I encourage you if you have concerns to come out and listen because they're going to do a 30-minute presentation that's going to really highlight the important work that they've been doing and lastly I'm really excited so if we can put it up I'm really excited as most people know my hundred days is quickly coming forward and so because of that the state of the district the save the date is coming out soon and so it will be Wednesday October 18th um because we want to make sure that we can have about 200 people there but I'm going to be having it at Franklin High School and so we encourage people to come out and hear about the state of the district so focus on my four key areas and provide not only accolades and strengths

103of what we are doing well and what we'll continue to do but it's also going to provide areas of opportunity and priority recommendations and so thank you all and we will continue to do good work for our students families and community moving on to item 10.2 approval to purchase the story evacuation chair for Stockton Unified School District can I get a motion to approve make a motion Cecilia Mendes can I get a second I'll second uh roll call vote please vice president Stevens yes Claire colon yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluetta yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously moving on to item 10.3 approval to purchase ICU Technologies paging intercom and Bell's upgrade for emergency preparedness can I get a motion to approve motion Cecilia Mendes can I get

104a second any discussion vice president Stevens yes clerk colon yes trustee dinner yes Jesse Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluera yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously uh can I get a motion to approve uh 10.4 ratification of the legal services agreement with Fagan Friedman and full Frost Lop for the 23-24 school year a motion to approve can I get a second second Stevens any discussion vice president Stevens yes Claire colon yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico I'm staying no president Flores yes motion passes five with one abstention from trustee Rico and one no vote coming from trustee zuluetta moving on to item 10.5 up can I get a motion to approve of the reorganization proposal for the Stockton fight School District's Department oh yeah I like to motion to approve

105this for more discussion and bring it back to the next meeting my second uh roll call vote vice president Stevens yes clear colon yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez are you changing uh the order of the agenda you're changing it bring it to the next meeting we're not voting today for this no trustee Rico I'm staying trustee zuluweta yes president Flores yes motion to table agenda item 10.5 passes with uh five one no vote from trustee Mendes and one abstention from trustee Rico moving on to item 11.1 adoption of resolution 23-16 determination of sufficient standards align textbooks and instructional materials following a public hearing for the 23-24 school year can I get a motion to approve I'll make the motion to approve can I get a second second Stevens any discussion roll call vote vice

106president Stevens yes clerk colon yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee Louetta yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously moving on to item 11.2 approval of the contracts with facts education Solutions as a third party contractor to provide Equitable Services on behalf of private schools All Saints Academy of Stockton annotation of the cathedral St Luke's Catholic Elementary and Saint Mary's High School identified in their 23-24 Equitable Services plan for the 23-24 school year can I get a motion to approve motions all motion I'll second Stevens any discussion rocalvo I'm sorry who motioned cologne and um vice president Stevens yes Claire colon yes trustee dinner yes Josie Mendez yes trustee Rico yes Jesse zuluetta yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously moving on to item 11.3 approval of an agreement to furnish

107consultant and program services with prosoft for enrichment learning curriculum and student licenses and expanded learning opportunities program known as elop can I get a motion to approve make a motion I second any discussion roll call vote vice president Stevens yes yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously moving on to item 11.4 approval of purchase agreement with solution tree to furnish professional development consulting services for all School sites and district office administrators for the 23 24 school year can I get a motion to approve motion I'll second any discussion roll call vote please vice president Stevens yes yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluetta yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously moving on to item 11.5 approval of an agreement to

108furnished consultant services with Consortium on reaching excellence in education core with K-5 intervention teachers can I get a motion to approve motion can I get a second all second can I get any discussion roll call vote vice president Stevens yes Claire colon yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustees yes president Flores yes the motion passes unanimously moving on to item 11.6 approval of an agreement to furnish consulting services with tri-group Inc for the educational services division can I get a motion to approve motion can I get a second I'll second any discussion roll call vote please vice president Stevens yes clerk colon yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluetta yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously moving on to idle 12.1 individual teacher materials allocation can

109I get a motion to approve motion can I get a second second Stevens any discussion I would just like to say that I'm very happy to see this on the agenda because I've been hearing a lot about this and I know that some of my school sites are still reaching out to me so that they haven't received any supplies this year so thank you uh roll call vote vice president Stevens yes Claire colon yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluetta yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously and if there's ever any if I need to give him some more again can we try again to see if we can find some budget in it for them thank you moving on to item 12.2 approval of amended agreement to French consultant

110services with trygroup Inc for the human resources department can I get a motion to approve motion can I get a second oh second Stevens any discussion roll call vote vice president Stevens yes Claire colon yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluwada no as an employees yes motion passes 6-1 with the no vote from trustee zuluweta uh can I uh moving on to idle 12.3 Transportation manager job description update can I get a motion to approve motion second Stevens any discussion uh roll call vote vice president Stevens yes Clark colon yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluera no president Flores yes motion passes 6-1 with no vote coming from trustee zuluera moving on to idle 12.4 adoption of resolution number 23-27 for the 2324 provisional internship

111permits can I get a motion to approve motion can I get a second all second any discussion roll call vote vice president Stevens yes colon yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes Tracy zuluweta yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously moving on to item 12.5 adoption of resolution number 23-25 approval for certificated employees to teach outside of credential authorization can I get a motion to approve motion can I get a second all second any discussion roll call vote please vice president Stevens yes yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluera yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously item 12.6 adoption of resolution number 23-32 waiver request to variable term waiver can I get a motion to approve motion can I get a second any discussion roll call vote

112vice president Stevens yes yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluetta yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously moving on to item 13.1 approval of amendment number one to the professional Inspection Services agreement with a plus Inspection Services Inc for the Van Buren Elementary School play structure installation project can I get a motion to approve motion any discussion roll call vote vice president Stevens yes clerk colon yes Tracy Denair yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee Zulu yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously I am 13.2 approval of amendment number three and change order number three to the independent contractor agreement with Kya Services LLC for the Van Buren Elementary School play structure installation project can I get a motion to approve I'll make the motion hi second any discussion

113Royal calvo vice president Stevens yes colon yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluetta yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously moving on to I have 1343 approval of amendment number two to the agreement for architectural services with derivi Castellanos Architects for the Arthur Coleman Junior parking lot expansion projects can I get a motion to approve motion I'll make the second any discussion roll call vote vice president Stevens yes yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluera yes president please yes motion passes unanimously moving on to item 13.4 adoption of resolution number 23-26 to adopt the Appropriations limit recalculation and the 22-23 estimated Appropriations Gan limit can I get a motion to approve motion second any discussion roll call vote vice president Stevens yes clerk colon yes

114trustee dinner yes trustee Mendes yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluera yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously 13.5 adoption of resolution number 2328 to update the delegation of power for signing contracts effective September 27 2023 can I get a motion to your motion second any discussion roll call vote vice president Stevens yes Claire colon yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee Zulu yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously moving on item 13.6 approval of resolution number 23-30 certifying the election results for 20 22. can I get a motion to approve motion I'll second any discussion roll call vote vice president Stevens yes clerk colon yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluweta yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously moving on to item 13.7 adoption of resolution

115number 23-31 establishing citizens oversight committee and it's bylaws for measure C can I get a motion to approve motion second any discussion roll call vote vice president Stevens yes clerk colon yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluweta yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously moving on to item 13.8 approval of ab1200 financial public disclosure forms regarding CSEA 885 can I get a motion to approve motion Cecilia Mendez awesome any discussion roll call vote please vice president Stevens yes clerk Gordon yes trustee dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluetta yes president Flores yes and for the record if we take a look at this item it says that it was prepared by Joanne wattis received by Dr Rodriguez and my name is not on this so This directly

116comes from our staff and this has nothing to me saying we need to reward anybody for coming to work so my vote is yes motion passes unanimously item 13.8 oh no never mind let me know 13.9 approval of the ab1200 for confidential and unrepresented can I get a motion to approve motion a second any discussion roll call vote vice president Stevens yes Chelsea Diner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluetta yes president Flores yes motion passes unanimously moving on to item 13.10 approval of the vendor payments issued for the month of July 2023 as presented can I get a motion to emotion can I get a second Stevens any discussion rocalvo vice president Stevens yes Claire colon yes Chelsea dinner yes trustee Mendez yes trustee Rico yes trustee zuluetta yes president Flores yes

117motion passes unanimously and we will now move to adjournment at may I ask uh president and the clerk to stay behind for signatures please sure thank you just